--- title: Archives as Sites of Resistance, Liberation and Creativity footer: "Hillel Arnold | @helrond | The Word is Action Conference | October 21, 2016" css: clbsj transition: fade option: -history: true -progress: true --- ### Archives as Sites of # Resistance, Liberation & Creativity ------ # hello! ------ ## What archives are ## What archives can be ------ ## Acquire, preserve and make accessible records of historic significance ------ ## What is a record, and what can you do with it? ------ people used to make records as in a record of an event the event of people playing music in a room ------ people used to make records as in a record of an event the event of people playing music in a room ------ ## Who speaks, who is silent? ## Why do we document, why do we save? ------ # Archives and records are about people ------ # Spaces for creativity, resistance and liberation ------ # Creativity ------ ## Creativity decenters authority ------ ## For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. ------ # Resistance ------ ## Accountability ------ ## Archives as texts ------ # Liberation ------ ## Maintainers< ------ ## Sociotechnical systems ------ ## Liberation happens through people ------ ## Radical empathy ------ ## Community archives * Radical empathy * Countering symbolic annihilation * Representational belonging ------ ## Confront our complicity ## Build trust at the margins ------ ## Archives connect humans across time and space

--- title: Better Search Through Listening theme: simple css: "edui-listen" transition: default option: -controls: true -progress: true -history: true --- # Better Search Through Listening Hillel Arnold / [@helrond](http://twitter.com/helrond) Lead Digital Archivist, Rockefeller Archive Center<

#edui-listen

------ ## Hello! ------ ## Follow along [bit.ly/edui-listen](http://bit.ly/edui-listen) ------ ## {data-background="img/hillcrest.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} The dusty archives ------ ## Teamwork! * **Sibyl Schaefer** - Assistant Director, Head of Digital Programs * **Patrick Galligan** - Assistant Digital Archivist * **>Bonnie Gordon** - Assistant Digital Archivist ------ ## D-Team Goals * Leverage technology in an innovative way. * Provide high quality, standards-based care of digital collections. * Provide enhanced discovery tools. * Enable the exposure and broad use of RAC collections. * Serve as a leader and model for the archival community. ------ ## {data-background="img/binders.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} Binders! ------ ## eXtensible Text Framework ------ ## Problems! ------ ## Default Interface * Frames! * HTML tables! * Inline styles! ------ ## 504 Bad Gateway The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. ------ ## Finding Aids * Document-centric * Not suited to online discovery environments * Jargon-heavy ------ ## People ------ ## Change is scary... ------ ## ...especially for archivists.< ------ ## Feedback quality and frequency< ------ ## Anecdotes and incomplete data ------ ## Diagnose, Resolve, Confirm ## (rinse and repeat) ------ ## Qualitative * Web analytics * Server logs ------ ## Quantitative * Usability testing * Changing organizational culture ------ ## Web Analytics ------ ## Ouch! ![initial sources](img/initial-sources.png) ------ ### Google Webmaster Tools ------ ## Poor indexing ![bad indexing](img/bad-indexing.png) ------ ## Simplify and stabilize `http://dimes.rockarch.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=headerlink;doc.view=contents` `http://dimes.rockarch.org/FA308/contents` ------ ## Structured Data ------ ## schema.org ------ ## From your page... ![schema metadata](img/jdr-schema.png) ------ ## ...to Google's index! ![google structure data results](img/jdr-structured.png) ------ ## It works! ![increase search traffic](img/search-traffic-increase.png) ------ ## Event Tracking * Record almost any user interaction with a web page * Clicks, scrolls, downloads, etc. ------ ## More like this 1. Click to **show** more options 2. Click to **view** one of the options ------ ## Show, but not view ![more like this](img/more-like-this.png) ------ ## Try, then abandon ![events per session](img/events-per-session.png) ------ ## Table of contents ![table of contents](img/toc.png) ------ ## What are users looking at? ![clicks on table of contents](img/toc-clicks.png) ------ ## Server Logs ------ ## Access Log `127.0.0.1 - [10/Oct/2013:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /FA001/collection HTTP/1.0" 200 2326` ------ ## Multiple requests, same URL [21/Sep/2014:06:51:12 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507 [21/Sep/2012:06:51:12 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507 [21/Sep/2012:06:51:13 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507 [21/Sep/2012:06:51:14 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507 [21/Sep/2012:06:51:14 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507 [21/Sep/2012:06:51:14 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507 ------ ## {data-background="img/container-lists.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} Container Lists ------ ## Context... ------ ## ...in the right amount ------ ## Hierarchy ------ ## Search Results ------ ## More information ![more information](img/more-info.png) ------ ## Bookbag ![bookbag](img/bookbag.png) ------ ## Usability Testing ------ ## Institutional context * No IRB * Geographic location * Pre-visit communication ------ ## It's as easy as... 1. Write the test 2. Run the test 3. Evaluate the results ------ ## ...which is not all that easy. ------ ## Test, test, test! ## Then test again. ------ ## Changing Organizational Culture ------ ## D-Team Values * **Vision** - where we're going * **Work plan** - what we're doing * **Values** - how we're working< ------ ## Think of the user ## Think of the user ## Think of the user ## Think of the user ## Think of the user ## Think of the user ## Think of the user ## Think of the user ## Think of the user ## Think of the user ------ ## UI change = Organizational change< ------ ## UI professionals are change agents ------ ## Communicate ------ ## Push out (information) ------ ## Get out (of your office)< ------ ## Show the way ------ ## Make it fun ------ ## {data-background="img/searchy-hollow.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} Searchy Hollow ------ ## {data-background="img/dimes.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} DIMES ------ ## Staff are users too! ------ ## Be a better person * Have a thick skin * Be approachable and willing to approach * Back it up ------ ## It's all about the people. ------ ## Thank you! --- title: "From Transfer to Access: Digital Records at the Rockefeller Archive Center" theme: night css: foundation-librarians transition: option: -controls: false, -progress: false, -history: true, -center: true, ---

From Transfer
to Access

Digital Records at the
Rockefeller Archive Center

Hillel Arnold, Lead Digital Archivist

------

hello!

------

principles

processes

tools

------

who we are

collect, preserve and provide access

growth, transfer and spread of knowledge

------

scholars & history

------ ![rockefeller100](img/rockefeller100.png) ------

archives are used for

institutional histories

information about grantees

relationships

------

it's about more than just you!

------

transparency & openness

------

processes

accessioning

arrangement and description

access

------

the blue tunnel

![the blue tunnel](img/blue-tunnel.gif) ------ ![libraries are](img/libraries-are.png) ------ ![don't panic](img/dont-panic.gif) ------

principles → processes → tools

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accessioning and transfer

physical and intellectual control

------

principles

authenticity

security

stability

------

tools

BagIt

transfer mechanism: DropBox, rsync, physical media

Archivematica

------ ![accessioning](img/accessioning.png) ------

arrangement and description

represent context of creation and maintenance

------

principles

describe the creators of records

describe the records

maintain original order

document archival interventions

create structured data

------

tools

Forensic Toolkit

ArchivesSpace

------ ![arrangement and description](img/arrangement-and-description.png) ------

access

making our records discoverable, accessible, and reusable

------

principles

lower barriers to discovery

focus on user's needs

multiple discovery points and methods

accessible to all - assistive technology, mobile devices, web crawlers

------

tools

structured data

DIMES

------ ![access](img/access.png) ------ ![dimes search](img/dimes-search.png) ------ ![dimes browse](img/dimes-browse.png) ------ ![dimes list](img/dimes-list.png) ------ ![dimes digital](img/dimes-digital.png) ------

principles → processes → tools

------

thank you!

harnold@rockarch.org

@helrond

--- title: "staticAid: a static site generator for archival description" theme: white css: introducing-staticaid transition: slide option: -controls: true, -progress: true, -history: true, -center: true, --- # staticAid A static site generator for archival description

Hillel Arnold / @helrond Head of Digital Programs, Rockefeller Archive Center #### `http://hillelarnold.com/staticAid/` #### `https://github.com/helrond/staticAid` #### `http://bit.ly/staticaid` # Thanks! @edUIConf @HenrikJoreteg @code4lib 2016 organizers @trevorthornton ##ArchivesSpace REST API ##JSON ##Jekyll templates ##HTML ##`GET resources/` ##`GET resources/trees/` ##`GET archival_objects/` ##`GET agents/` ##`GET subjects/` #`makePages.py` #`jekyll serve` ## HTML pages Collections Archival objects Subjects Agents (people, family, corporate bodies) ## responsive! ## schema.org! ## fast! # THIS IS NOT PERFECT ## No search ## Not fancy # Who cares? ## Speed matters ## Maintainability matters ArchivesSpace instance Python Github repository/Github pages # `` ## Version control for content ## The right tool for the job #Thanks! --- title: Making EAD Make Sense css: "making-ead-make-sense" transition: convex option: -controls: false, -progress: false, -history: true, -center: true, --- ## Making EAD Make Sense Hillel Arnold / @helrond Lead Digital Archivist, Rockefeller Archive Center ------ ## So you have EAD. ## Now what? ------ ## Finding aids {data-background="img/container-lists.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} ------ ![transform](img/transform.png) ------ ## User challenges Linear discovery Complex structure Distance between context and content Jargon-heavy Not suited to online discovery environments ------ ## The Dusty Archive

{data-background="img/hillcrest.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} ------

## eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) {data-state="comment2 fadein} ------ ## Default XTF Interface Bad HTML Limited Discovery ------

## So you have problems. {data-state="comment3 fadein} ## Now what? ------ # Tools! ------

## Web Analytics {data-state="comment5 fadein"} ------ ## Where are our users? ![geographic](img/geo.png) ------ ##Event Tracking Record almost any user interaction with a web page Clicks, scrolls, downloads, etc. ------

## More like this {data-state="comment6 fadein"} 1. Click to show more options 2. Click to view one of the options ------ ## Show, but not view

![more like this](img/more-like-this.png) ------ ## Try, then abandon ![events per session](img/events-per-session.png) ------

## Usability Testing {data-state="comment8 fadein} ------ ## It's as easy as...

1. Write the test 2. Run the test 3. Evaluate the results ------ ## ...which is not all that easy.

------

## Test, test, test! {data-state="comment7 fadein"} ## Then test again. ------ ## So you have tools. ## Now what? ------ # Strategies! ------ ## Atomize the finding aid ------ ## Context... ------ ## ...in the right amount ------

## Proximity {data-state="comment11 fadein"} ![more info](img/more-info.png) ------ ## Improve structured data ------

## Ouch! {data-state="comment12 fadein"} ![initial sources](img/initial-sources.png) ------ ## Google Webmaster Tools ------

## Poor indexing {data-state="comment13 fadein"} ![bad indexing](img/bad-indexing.png) ------ ## Sitemap ![sitemap](img/sitemap.png) ------ ## Simplify and stabilize `http://dimes.rockarch.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=headerlink;doc.view=contents` `http://dimes.rockarch.org/FA308/contents` ------

## Structured Data {data-state="comment14 fadein"} ------ ## schema.org ------

## From your page... {data-state="comment19 fadein"} ![jdr schema.or data](img/jdr-schema.png) ------

## ...to Google's index! {data-state="comment15 fadein"} ![indexed data](img/jdr-structured.png) ------ ##It works! ![search traffic increase](img/search-traffic-increase.png) ------

## Social media markup {data-state="comment16 fadein"} Twitter cards Open Graph (Facebook) ------ ## Get Responsive ------ ## Increasing mobile users ![mobile users](img/mobile-users.png) ------

## Mobilegeddon! {data-state="comment17 fadein"} ------ ## Responsive web design ------ @media screen and (max-width:320px) { //Cool styles for phones go here! } ------ ## Big screens ![big screen](img/jdr-full.png) ------ ## Little screens ![phone](img/jdr-phone.png) ------ ## Create a user-centered culture ------

# Empathy {data-state="comment18 fadein"} ------ ## It's all about the people. ------ # Thank you! ## [bit.ly/nyac-ead](http://bit.ly/nyac-ead) ------

Better Search Through Listening

Hillel Arnold / [@helrond](http://twitter.com/helrond)

Lead Digital Archivist, Rockefeller Archive Center<

#edui-listen

Hello!


Follow along

bit.ly/edui-listen


{data-background="img/hillcrest.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} The dusty archives


Teamwork!

  • Sibyl Schaefer - Assistant Director, Head of Digital Programs
  • Patrick Galligan - Assistant Digital Archivist
  • >Bonnie Gordon - Assistant Digital Archivist

D-Team Goals

  • Leverage technology in an innovative way.
  • Provide high quality, standards-based care of digital collections.
  • Provide enhanced discovery tools.
  • Enable the exposure and broad use of RAC collections.
  • Serve as a leader and model for the archival community.

{data-background="img/binders.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} Binders!


eXtensible Text Framework


Problems!


Default Interface

  • Frames!
  • HTML tables!
  • Inline styles!

504 Bad Gateway

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.


Finding Aids

  • Document-centric
  • Not suited to online discovery environments
  • Jargon-heavy

People


Change is scary...


...especially for archivists.<


Feedback quality and frequency<


Anecdotes and incomplete data


Diagnose, Resolve, Confirm

(rinse and repeat)


Qualitative

  • Web analytics
  • Server logs

Quantitative

  • Usability testing
  • Changing organizational culture

Web Analytics


Ouch!

initial sources

initial sources


Google Webmaster Tools


Poor indexing

bad indexing

bad indexing


Simplify and stabilize

http://dimes.rockarch.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=headerlink;doc.view=contents

http://dimes.rockarch.org/FA308/contents


Structured Data


schema.org


From your page...

schema metadata

schema metadata


...to Google's index!

google structure data results

google structure data results


It works!

increase search traffic

increase search traffic


Event Tracking

  • Record almost any user interaction with a web page
  • Clicks, scrolls, downloads, etc.

More like this

  1. Click to show more options
  2. Click to view one of the options

Show, but not view

more like this

more like this


Try, then abandon

events per session

events per session


Table of contents

table of contents

table of contents


What are users looking at?

clicks on table of contents

clicks on table of contents


Server Logs


Access Log

127.0.0.1 - [10/Oct/2013:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /FA001/collection HTTP/1.0" 200 2326


Multiple requests, same URL

    [21/Sep/2014:06:51:12 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507
                [21/Sep/2012:06:51:12 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507
                [21/Sep/2012:06:51:13 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507
                [21/Sep/2012:06:51:14 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507
                [21/Sep/2012:06:51:14 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507
                [21/Sep/2012:06:51:14 +0000] "GET /view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=ref2507

{data-background="img/container-lists.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} Container Lists


Context...


...in the right amount


Hierarchy


Search Results


More information

more information

more information


Bookbag

bookbag

bookbag


Usability Testing


Institutional context

  • No IRB
  • Geographic location
  • Pre-visit communication

It's as easy as...

  1. Write the test
  2. Run the test
  3. Evaluate the results

...which is not all that easy.


Test, test, test!

Then test again.


Changing Organizational Culture


D-Team Values

  • Vision - where we're going
  • Work plan - what we're doing
  • Values - how we're working<

Think of the user

Think of the user

Think of the user

Think of the user

Think of the user

Think of the user

Think of the user

Think of the user

Think of the user

Think of the user


UI change = Organizational change<


UI professionals are change agents


Communicate


Push out (information)


Get out (of your office)<


Show the way


Make it fun


{data-background="img/searchy-hollow.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} Searchy Hollow


{data-background="img/dimes.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"} DIMES


Staff are users too!


Be a better person

  • Have a thick skin
  • Be approachable and willing to approach
  • Back it up

It's all about the people.


Thank you!

From Transfer
to Access

Digital Records at the
Rockefeller Archive Center

Hillel Arnold, Lead Digital Archivist

hello!

principles

processes

tools

who we are

collect, preserve and provide access

growth, transfer and spread of knowledge

scholars & history

archives are used for

institutional histories

information about grantees

relationships

it's about more than just you!

transparency & openness

processes

accessioning

arrangement and description

access

the blue tunnel

principles → processes → tools

accessioning and transfer

physical and intellectual control

principles

authenticity

security

stability

tools

BagIt

transfer mechanism: DropBox, rsync, physical media

Archivematica

arrangement and description

represent context of creation and maintenance

principles

describe the creators of records

describe the records

maintain original order

document archival interventions

create structured data

tools

Forensic Toolkit

ArchivesSpace

access

making our records discoverable, accessible, and reusable

principles

lower barriers to discovery

focus on user's needs

multiple discovery points and methods

accessible to all - assistive technology, mobile devices, web crawlers

tools

structured data

DIMES

principles → processes → tools

thank you!

harnold@rockarch.org

@helrond

Making EAD Make Sense

Hillel Arnold / @helrond

Lead Digital Archivist, Rockefeller Archive Center

So you have EAD.

Now what?

Finding aids

transform transform

User challenges

Linear discovery
Complex structure
Distance between context and content
Jargon-heavy
Not suited to online discovery environments

## The Dusty Archive

{data-background="img/hillcrest.jpg" data-background-transition="concave"}

eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) {data-state="comment2 fadein}

Default XTF Interface

Bad HTML
Limited Discovery

So you have problems. {data-state="comment3 fadein}

Now what?

Tools!

Web Analytics

Where are our users?

geographic geographic

Event Tracking

Record almost any user interaction with a web page
Clicks, scrolls, downloads, etc.

More like this

  1. Click to show more options
  2. Click to view one of the options
## Show, but not view more like this more like this

Try, then abandon

events per session events per session

Usability Testing {data-state="comment8 fadein}

## It's as easy as...
  1. Write the test
  2. Run the test
  3. Evaluate the results
## ...which is not all that easy.

Test, test, test!

Then test again.

So you have tools.

Now what?

Strategies!

Atomize the finding aid

Context...

...in the right amount

Proximity

more info more info

Improve structured data

Ouch!

initial sources initial sources

Google Webmaster Tools

Poor indexing

bad indexing bad indexing

Sitemap

sitemap sitemap

Simplify and stabilize

http://dimes.rockarch.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/FA308/FA308.xml;chunk.id=headerlink;doc.view=contents

http://dimes.rockarch.org/FA308/contents

Structured Data

schema.org

From your page...

jdr schema.or data jdr schema.or data

...to Google's index!

indexed data indexed data

It works!

search traffic increase search traffic increase

Social media markup

Twitter cards
Open Graph (Facebook)

Get Responsive

Increasing mobile users

mobile users mobile users

Mobilegeddon!

Responsive web design

    @media screen and (max-width:320px) {
                //Cool styles for phones go here! }

Big screens

big screen big screen

Little screens

phone phone

Create a user-centered culture

Empathy

It's all about the people.

Thank you!

bit.ly/nyac-ead